Transferring From Emory to UPenn, How to get rec letters?

Transfer Students
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<p>My first semester GPA is 3.13, but I can probably fix that by getting a 4.0 next semester.</p>

<p>But my problem is that since I need 2 recommendation letters, I don’t know which professors I should ask to write me recommendation letters. For Physics and Calc 2 I only got a C+ and B- respectively, and also I don’t know the professors that well.</p>

<p>I got B+ and A in Poetry and Econ respectively, and I know my Poetry teacher quite well, but I am reluctant to ask her to write me a rec letter, because I was afraid that getting a letter from a non-core subject professor may not look as good on the application. I don’t know my econ professor that well, but since I got an A in that class, would it be better to ask that professor to write it?</p>

<p>So based on my situation, which teachers would you pick to write the recommendation letters?</p>

<p>Thanks for your help!</p>

2

<p>Why don’t you think poetry (English) is a core subject?</p>

<p>I’d go with the best LORs which seem like they’d be the Poetry & Econ profs.</p>

3

<p>It will be very hard to transfer up if you got a 3.13 your first semester. May want to wait until next year.</p>

4

<p>Penn won’t see second semester grades as incorporated into your cumulative. Wait a year.</p>

5

<p>Guess I’d temporarily given up on trying to explain that to 1 semester wonders, thanks to Avid and it for taking up my slack ;).</p>